Sinclair DNA - DYS390=25
Lineage

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through time

This group was one
of the strange and fascinating
discoveries of 2008. According to Heyer, this haplotype has an unusual
match
pattern. Half of its top ten frequencies fall in Spain,
or among Hispanic samples in the U.S.
Yet it also occurs in Northern
Italy, Switzerland,
and in a fair variety of locales in the Baltic region.

“This haplotype may have
originated primarily in Iberia,
and spread with the diaspora of Iberian
Sephardim to other parts of Europe known to have substantial Jewish
settlements
- such as Northern Italy, Bern, Switzerland
and
the greater Baltic. It likely came to Britain
with the prehistoric
Iberians or the Normans.” (83)

This Haplogroup is called #17 in the
study cited above -

Niven Sinclair and others from his
lineage land on this set
of markers directly. Thus, they may have an ancestor who left Israel
with the
Diaspora of 70 AD. Another possibility is that they stayed in Iberia
after
the retreat of the LGM and formed the mutations that characterize their
lineage, then met up with those of the Diaspora as they headed north to
the
Baltic. Given Niven’s name match with an ancient family of Italy, I have reason to
believe the former
possibility is the correct one as Italy
is east of Iberia.
It gives credence to the notion of leaving Israel,
spending time in Northern Italy, then moving northwest towards Normandy.

As you can imagine, given the
accepted stories of our family
coming from Kiev,
this notion of being part of the Diaspora of 70 AD came as quite a
shock.

This study of the current day
distribution of
DYS390 markers seems consistent with an origin of this mutation in
Italy, but could also mean a dispersal out of the Iberian
Peninsula.

Another Curious
Possibility Regarding This Lineage

Summary
of the Facts - DYS390=25 Lineage, HEYER #17

This
lineage is closest to the AMH lineage out of all others in the family,
but not terribly close.

They seem to have either been in Israel or to have stayed in Spain
where they then joined up wiht the Diaspora of 70AD on it's way to the
Baltic.